Systems
The outcome of interactions within and among systems of interrelated parts.
What is Systems Perspective?
The Study of mental processes such as attention, memory, perception, and language.
What is Cognitive Theory?
This approach is focused on unequal power distribution and encourages community participants to challenge the status quo.
What is Conflict Approach?
Not an identity- lifelong process of building relationships based on trust, consistency, and accountability with marginalized individuals and/ or groups of people.
What is Allyship?
What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
Open System
ANTs
What are Automatic Negative Thoughts?
Focus on city placement, population growth, land use patterns, and relationship to major cities. Focus on human health and well-being and their relationship to physical features of the community.
What is Spatial Arrangement Approach?
This concept considers that various forms of social stratification, such as class, race, sexual orientation, age, disability and gender, do not exist separately from each other but are interwoven together.
What is Intersectionality?
Process in which individuals and groups gain power to access resources and to control the circumstances of their lives.
What is Empowerment Perspective?
Equilibrium, a positive, steady state of biological, or social functioning.
What is Homeostasis?
An infant who acts somewhat distressed when their parent figures leave but greet them eagerly and warmly upon return.
What is Securely Attached?
1. Functions to meet system requirement
2. Recognizes valuable resources
3. Includes all members
4. Promotes community capital
What are four characteristics of a healthy community?
This concept underscores the connections between the personal experiences and larger social and political structures.
What is The Personal is Political?
1. Positive outlook
2. High self esteem
3. General sense of self-efficacy.
What is Burnout?
The concept that there are multiple paths to the same result.
Concerned with individuals in their psychosocial environment. Focused on functions including reality testing, judgement, sense of identity, impulse control, and defense mechanisms (to name a few).
What is Ego Psychology?
This theory suggests that social work should focus on “person with environment” rather than “person and environment.
What is Deep Ecology?
*Emphasizes the total interconnectedness of all elements of the natural and physical world and the inseparability of human well-being and the well-being of planet earth.
A defense whereby one rids oneself of what is intolerable or scary by placing it on another who comes to embody what is feared and then hated (primitive and early anxieties).
What is Projective Identification? Specifically racism as a form of projection.
The average annual incidence of end-stage kidney disease in minority zip codes was nearly twice as high as non-minority zip codes is an example of...
What is a health disparity?
This theory proposes that we are all part of numerous interacting system that are linked through many dense interconnections.
What is Complex Systems Theory?
Intimacy versus Isolation
What is Erickson’s Young Adult stage of psychosocial development?
This organizational approach shares two basic premises:
1. Organizations provide members with a sense of connection and meaning.
2. Organizations reflect the world views of the creators; they are social constructions of reality created by ongoing interactions and emerging relationships.
What is Interactional/ Interpretive Perspective?
Ultimately our goal as social workers in terms of working cross culturally.
What is Cultural Humility?
*Ability to maintain an interpersonal stance that is other-oriented in relation to aspects of cultural identity that are most important to the person.
The process of learning to differentiate between thoughts and feeling and to follow one’s own beliefs rather than making decisions based on reactivity to the cues of others or the need to win approval.